Notes on the translation: This pre-1922 (and thus public
domain) English edition of Jules Verne's De la Terre à la
Lune is not a terribly good translation of Verne's
original work. The central story line comes through, but much
of the humour, interplay among characters, amusing dialogue,
philosophical subtexts, and the flavour of Verne's writing style is
attenuated. If your French is not up to reading the original
edition on this server, and you'd like
to better understand this work in depth, I recommend the contemporary
translation,
The Annotated Jules Verne: From the Earth to the Moon
, translated and annotated by Walter James Miller, ISBN
0-517-14833-1. Even if you've read De la Terre à la Lune in the
original French, you'll still learn a good deal about the 19th
century social and literary context of the work from The Annotated Jules Verne
edition.

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